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Dat species.... (Mars Curiosity Rover)

Any of you checked out that 3D simulation you can access? Its like Google maps, but for bodies in space - planets, Sattelites.... Its amazing..

At first I was like... Oh... cool.. I can zoom in and out of some stuff...

But I started to click to Earth... I was thinking "cool, thats us, thats our entire existence.. everything good and bad" And then I started to click to the various orbiting bodies, the ISS etc, different satellites.. I started to appreciate our achievements.

All the while I was doing this, I had the live stream in the other tab, listening to "copy that.... nasa space talk, herpa derpa.. roger, over and out" in the background @ http://www.livestream.com/spaceflightnow

So anyway... I continued to click on all these other objects.. The planets, ofcourse, their moons, but even beyond that.. The Stereo A and B (ahead and behind) satellites, which sole purpose is to watch the sun from each angle... Even more... Both Voyager satellites, which are sent out into the farthest reaches of space until we can no longer contact them..

Its amazing when you use the simulation program and start to understand the ridiculous size of our solar system, and ultimately the universe... but then ... after ALLLLL of that, you need to double click on Earth and zoom back in to where you live... and you're like... fuck.... WTF....
Its just amazing but at the same time, its depressing, knowing how so many of us are 100% fucking DUMB, with shit like racism and meaningless hate... So hell bent on competing with other humans over something that is so beneath everything thats ultimately vastly more important.

Its mind blowing to think about... Just how absolutely amazing we can be, yet at the very same time, how fucking ridiculously pathetic and worthlessly undeserving we can be at the same fucking time.

Ahhhh shitburgers I was hoping for something shorter like at the very least 6 months well guess more time will have to go by before better engines are created.

Well, it might be shortened to that with advances in the tech to get us there. I just watched a cool sci fi short film about that exact premise of sending the first "pioneers" to mars. Is only a few minutes, it is called "We Are One."

The cool twist at the end is.....

... That they must sterilize any pioneers, as any martian babies born would have claim to the entire planet of mars. Pretty freaky to think about, and good reason a government might not want someone else staking claim.

"Locked. Saying Scots have thievery in their genes is a no-no.""That's like being the best cripple in the special Olympics."

If we manage to successfully colonize other planets or/and space itself maybe we would not go extinct as species if something happens on Earth.

First steps we should focus on is easier and cheaper ways of leaving Earth's atmosphere though. Then we could be able to bring sufficient equipment there. Maybe we would even be able to start terraforming Moon or Mars.

Its just amazing but at the same time, its depressing, knowing how so many of us are 100% fucking DUMB, with shit like racism and meaningless hate... So hell bent on competing with other humans over something that is so beneath everything thats ultimately vastly more important.

Its mind blowing to think about... Just how absolutely amazing we can be, yet at the very same time, how fucking ridiculously pathetic and worthlessly undeserving and stupid I can be for using words such as herpa and derpa.

Using Unity, a game development tool, NASA is pushing new limits by rendering high-resolution terrain maps of Gale Crater, Curiosity's landing site, collected from Mars orbiters. A 3-D "virtual rover" version of Curiosity will follow the path of the real rover as it makes discoveries.